Schedule for this month

Spanish music and musicians feature in a series of lunchtime recitals to take place at the Foundling Museum. Now in its 7th year at the Foundling Museum, the New London Orchestra´s most promising Young Performers Concert Series´ showcases some of the UK´s most promising young Spanish classical recitalists. Compositions by Stojowski, J. Castédère, J. Sandstrom, C.M. Saglietti and Albéniz will be played.

  The National Theatre is one of Mexico’s leading cultural institutions. Under Artistic Director Luis de Tavira, the company stages classics and contemporary drama from around the world. This production of Shakespeare's great dramatisation of madness in the land and mayhem in the pub is directed by Hugo Arrevillaga.

Ruben Szuchmacher, one of Argentina’s most influential and controversial directors, directs a new production of this elegiac masterpiece. A celebrated defender of the theatre’s freedom from the state, his work combines the richness of Shakespeare’s texts with a simple theatrical aesthetic. His approach has won him great acclaim as one of the most admired Shakespearean artists in South America.

It has been argued that language encodes a male worldview and takes males as the norm, thus helping to render women invisible. Is language sexist? How are sexism and a male worldview expressed in Spanish and English? These and other matters related to sexism in language will be debated in this session.

In 1533, the Spanish were enraged by Catherine of Aragon’s divorce from Henry VIII. Eighty years later, Shakespeare engaged with the subject in his last play. Now four hundred years later, Rakata, Madrid’s premier young classical company, re-imagine this play from a Spanish perspective, with the thrilling clarity they bring to their productions of Spanish Golden Age work.